The Swiss parliament elected Christoph Blocher of the far-right Swiss People's Party to the country's seven-man cabinet.
These Swiss people would never have seen and did not know anything about these sets of two candidates.
There is, however, a word of warning: the deal may require a referendum of the Swiss people to ratify it.
This region, known as Ticino, is home to most of the five per cent of Swiss people who are Italian speakers.
The concession enraged the Swiss People's Party, the smallest and most nationalist of the four parties that share power in government.
"It's about being involved in combat operations, and this clearly contradicts neutrality, " said Martin Baltisser, of the nationalist Swiss People's party, AP reported.
The right wing Swiss People's Party, which opposed the move, described the result as "the Swiss people's affirmation of their proud shooting tradition", AFP news agency reported.
One of the organisers of the referendum, Brigitte Moser Harder, told the BBC she thought the Swiss people agreed with the proposals because the gap between rich and poor had become wider.
But the right-wing Swiss People's Party struck a chord by telling voters that there was still a binary choice: either they would be subjected to misogynism and cruel punishments in the name of Islam, or else their existing culture, based on liberal Christianity, would prevail.
Trevisani has traditional large-cap holdings like British insurer Lloyds TSB Group (nyse: LYG - news - people ) and Swiss bank UBS (nyse: UBS - news - people ).
Some of Fidelity Worldwide's biggest holdings include Exxon Mobil (nyse: XOM - news - people ) and Swiss power and automation company ABB (nyse: ABB - news - people ).
Heidi is a national symbol, representing the feisty spirit of the mountain people and the Swiss love of nature.
Mr. Poehm estimates that in Switzerland alone 2.1 billion Swiss Francs are lost paying people to sit through worthless PowerPoint presentations annually.
Anglican Chaplain in Basle, the Rev Geoff Read, led the 20-minute service with around 14 relatives and a number of local people from the Swiss city.
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There are probably few people in the Swiss watch industry who understand this perspective more than Margolis, who is an outsider in a largely inbred industry.
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DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ), which is collaborating with Swiss drug and diagnostic firm Roche Holding (otc: RHHBY - news - people ), hopes to have a test based on the finding available as soon as next year at reference laboratories.
If the country leaves the eurozone, people with dollars, swiss francs and euros will be holding gold.
UBS's pedigree is as a Swiss private bank, protector of people's capital.
Then Serono (nyse: SRA - news - people ), a Swiss biotech, did a study showing that its drug Rebif might work better than Avonex for some patients.
More recently, Serono (nyse: SRA - news - people ), a Swiss biotech, was able to get its drug, Rebif, onto the U.S. market despite Avonex's orphan status.
Gurus also bought into a technology niche in videogames, more than doubling their holdings of Logitech (nasdaq: LOGI - news - people ), the Swiss maker of peripherals popular with gamers, such as interactive gaming controllers, multimedia speakers, Webcams, and headsets for the PC and gaming consoles.
Efforts to increase road safety have been stepped up since the 1970s, when more than 1, 200 people died every year on Swiss roads.
An executive at General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), Loescher had previously served as chief operating officer of Swiss biotech-tools firm Amersham (nyse: AHM - news - people ) and as chief executive of the Japanese arm of drug giant Sonofi-Aventis (nyse: SNY - news - people ).
Earlier this month, the U.S. government told Swiss bank UBS (nyse: UBS - news - people ) to reveal the names of its U.S. clients with "undeclared" Swiss accounts.
The brown bear had become dangerous because he regularly sought out food in inhabited areas -- including a school -- and had started following people during the day, the Swiss Federal Environment Office said.
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European citizens are asking their governments to set limits on Islamic encroachment-the minaret construction freeze voted in a Swiss referendum-and the will of the people sometimes reaches the ears of their elected representatives- forthcoming law against full facial veiling in France, cancellation of permit for a mega-mosque at London's 2012 Olympic site.
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Around 100, 000 people have used Paper.li since Swiss-start-up Small River launched it last spring, and around 1, 000 papers are being created each day.
Separately, shares of Julius Baer soared on rumors that Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) is planning to offer 100 Swiss francs per share for the company.
Police arrested six people following an alleged gang rape of a Swiss tourist in Madhya Pradesh state last week.
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